Mirror, Mirror
I can’t remember whether it was on the radio or the TV, but I’m sure it was Esther Rantzen who told a story about having a plaque above the mirror on her dressing room wall saying:- “Mirror, mirror, on...
View ArticleThe Station Master at Milan
I just heard a very funny story on Quote Unquote, a favourite radio show of mine. I must tell it to my father-in-law, although it is the kind of story he may well already know. A traveller has a...
View ArticleFine words butter no parsnips
Over dinner chez wizzud yesterday evening – in the company of Him Indoors and his parents – I was tucking into some rather nice roast pork with potatoes and parsnips cooked boulanger-style when I was...
View ArticleYour role has been demised
Announcing yet another round of banking industry redundancies yesterday (23 April 2013), an anonymous HSBC spokesperson was quoted on the BBC News website as having said that “the roles of commercial...
View ArticleThe return of Quote… Unquote
One of my favourite quiz shows, Quote… Unquote, has returned to Radio 4 for a new series. Here are a couple of highlights from yesterday’s broadcast: The last words of Emiliano Zapata, that leading...
View ArticleFamous Last Words
I like stories about amusing death-bed words like those of, for instance, Oscar Wilde, which were, reportedly, “Either this wallpaper goes or I do.” so I was amused to hear today that when O Henry was...
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